A new born baby in Bangladesh which was declared dead by doctors, started crying when it was about to be buried.
Galiba Hayat, the first child of district cricket team player Najmul Huda and his advocate wife Naznin Akhter, was born on Thursday (Sep 22) in Faridpur, about 140 kms from the Bangladeshi capital.
Najmul Huda, district cricket team player and his advocate wife Naznin Akhter had their first-born girl on Thursday in Faridpur.
Within 3 hours of birth, the baby was declared dead by the doctors at the hospital and she was taken to the graveyard for burial.
The caretaker at the graveyard told the parents to come back the morning of Friday for the burial and the presumed dead newborn was kept in a carton at the graveyard.
However, just when the couple along with the relatives commenced the burial ritual on Friday, the baby woke up and started crying.
She was quickly rushed to the hospital, where the doctors referred her to Dhaka.
“Doctors had referred her to Dhaka on Thursday itself but we could not do so owing to financial condition,” said the newborn’s grandfather Abdul Kalam.
“On Saturday, a person who is unwilling to reveal his identity, expressed his desire to bear the cost of her treatment and arranged for her to be taken to Dhaka’s Square Hospital for treatment by helicopter,” he said.
“The newborn is in a serious condition as she was born 24 weeks into the pregnancy and weighs 700 grams. So she was sent for intensive care treatment to Dhaka. If she gets good care, good results may be expected,” Faridpur Sadar Hospital Head of Paediatrics Dr Khondokar Mohamed Abdullah said.
